Cosmic Coherence Dr Marta Vázquez Vilar

Cosmic Coherence Dr Marta Vázquez VilarHumans are unique in their ability to create systematic accounts of the world theories based on guiding cosmological principles. This book is about the role of cognition in creating cosmologies, and explores this through the ethnography and history of Yijing divination in China. Diviners explain the cosmos in terms of a single substance, qi, unfolding across scales of increasing complexity to create natural phenomena and human experience. Combined

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Investigates women’s employment in the British Civil Service and London County Council during the twentieth century

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The author uses empirical research to explore the experiences of refugees from the successor states of Yugoslavia

The end of the Cold War and German unification

Whether envisioned as an era of lost simplicity or a barbaric nightmare

During the sixteenth century

all set against the backdrop of an ever-more transnational film culture

This book is the first study to provide an integrated picture of Westminster during this crucial period in its history

and a related study of Northern Sung writings showed that their theory was shaped as much by the views of their social class as by their artistic aims

and examines representative restoration interventions on Byzantine monuments in Greece

It concludes with an extensive critical essay on the role of ritual